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Seven Ideas You Can Steal From an Italian Botanical Garden. Really!
by
Douglas Hunt
(IC: professional)
Sometimes you visit a big public garden and it can be sort of overwhelming and you think, "Oh, how can I possibly do any of this in my little garden back home"? It can be even worse if you're in another country. Well, I visited the University of Bologna's "Orto Botanico" today and rather than just oohing and aahing I took a different approach. I decided to go in search of ideas that I knew I could actually put in place. Here are seven of my take-aways.
Plant passion flower
Mingling, it's a good thing
A roof is an opportunity for planting
Add some art
Marigolds like company
Labels are a good thing
Details count
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Published August 12th, 2014 11:51 AM
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Kat on Sep 05, 2014love the inspiration ! I went to the green waste site and found the perfect pillar,a cut tree that I used as a center piece to hold my big artichoke decor. ! Best of all the roofing glue is holding up and it is the center piece in one of my gardens!Oh the places we will go if we upcycle!
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Carolyn Hoxton on Sep 25, 2014There are some great ideas here, thanks! The garden art face head sort of spooked me out.
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Douglas Hunt on Sep 25, 2014@Carolyn Hoxton He does look a little alien, doesn't he?
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